cultureamp.comRatings checked July 30, 2026
Culture Amp Reviews: The 2026 Reality Check
What Culture Amp's ratings actually say, what real reviewers praise and complain about, and an honest is-it-worth-it verdict. Full disclosure up front: TeamPredict publishes this page and competes for retention budgets - so every rating carries its sample size and date, and the praise section comes first.
- Founded
- 2009
- Funding
- ~$300M raised
- Employees
- ~700-800
- Customers
- 6,000+ organizations
Melbourne, Australia
Last round: US$100M Series F at a US$1
Shrinking: 70 roles cut (~9%) in July 2026, 60 (~6%) in November 2025 - the third and second rounds since 2023
their own published claim
Culture Amp ratings at a glance
Checked July 30, 2026. Counts marked approximate come from the platforms' own listings via search results (G2 blocks automated reads), so treat them as a floor and check the live listing before you buy.
Who actually uses Culture Amp
The review base is the honest answer to “is this built for a team like mine?” For Culture Amp it's mid-market (63% of reviewers).
- Small business ≤50 staff
- 9%
- Mid-market 51-1,000
- 63%
- Enterprise 1,000+
- 28%
Source: G2 reviewer breakdown for Culture Amp. Capterra reports a very different split on a smaller base (36% small / 34% mid / 29% enterprise). G2's larger review base is the better signal, but the disagreement is real and worth knowing.
In their own words
What Culture Amp Users Actually Wrote
Verbatim from public reviews, praise and criticism together, each with the platform and date so you can go read the rest of it yourself.
“The platform is user-friendly, intuitive, and easy to navigate for both administrators and employees.”
“AI summary of comments from the survey is invaluable. Customer service is great.”
“Culture Amp is not able to deliver the necessary workflows, tooling, and reporting to align with requirements of a business of any large scale”
“once a survey has been sent to an employee, there is no simple way to fully cancel or delete it”
Quotes are verbatim from public Culture Amp reviews and are shown with the platform they came from. We publish criticism of the products we compete with and praise for them alike - a page that only quoted complaints would be as useless as one that only quoted praise.
What reviewers consistently praise
- The survey science is the thing reviewers trust: validated questions, serious benchmarks, and results leadership actually believes.
- Admins call surveys easy to launch and the insights genuinely actionable at the team level.
- AI Coach (rolled out from late 2025) gets credit for turning engagement data into concrete manager guidance.
The recurring complaints
Sourced from review-site themes, not from us - these are the reasons people end up searching “Culture Amp alternatives”.
- Quote-only pricing that climbs fast with modules and headcount - independent guides put typical contracts in five figures, and you can't see a number without sales.
- Built for 200+ employees: smaller teams report paying for benchmarking depth and complexity they can't use.
- The platform can feel stitched together after years of acquisitions - navigation between modules draws criticism.
- Performance management and goal/OKR features get called too simplistic for complex orgs.
- Notification overload, especially through the Slack integration.
- Survey admin gaps: you can't fully retract a sent survey, and finding a specific past review takes clicks.
What Culture Amp actually is
Culture Amp is a employee experience & engagement platform. The employee-experience heavyweight: research-backed engagement surveys, benchmarks, and people-science consulting, with Perform and Develop add-ons.
Pricing: Not published - annual quote via sales (as of July 30, 2026 - full Culture Amp pricing breakdown).
Best for: Organizations of a few hundred people and up that want serious, research-grade engagement measurement and can run an annual procurement.
What changed at Culture Amp recently
Milestones through August 3, 2026. Old reviews describe an old product, so read the ratings above against this: an acquisition, a repricing, or a discontinued module can outdate a five-star review from two years ago.
Jul 2021
Raises US$100M Series F at a US$1.5B valuation.
Mar 2024
Acquires people-analytics platform Orgnostic, the engine behind its retention insights.
Feb 2025
Named #1 in three G2 Winter 2025 Grid Reports at once: Employee Engagement, Performance Management, Career Management.
May 2025
Announces AI Coach, trained on what it describes as 1.5 billion workplace datapoints.
Oct 2025
Expands AI Coach across the platform at no extra charge.
Nov 2025
Cuts ~60 roles (~6% of staff) in the same month as the AI Coach platform launch.
Dec 2025
Filed accounts show a US$24.4M FY25 loss on US$177M revenue, with growth slowing to 10.8% (from 32% in FY23).
Jan 2026
Founder Didier Elzinga steps down as CEO after ~17 years; CFO/COO Caroline Rawlinson takes over.
Jul 2026
Cuts 70 roles (~9% of staff), the third layoff round since 2023.
Why ratings alone mislead
A star rating is an average over years of a product that kept changing. Culture Amp's score today includes reviews written before features shipped, before prices moved, and in some cases before the company was owned by someone else. That is why every rating on this page carries its sample size, every quote carries its date, and the timeline sits next to both.
The verdict
Is Culture Amp Worth It in 2026?
Worth it for organizations of a few hundred people and up that want research-grade engagement measurement and will act on aggregate insight. Not worth it for small teams - the price is built for bigger budgets, results are anonymized by design, and it will never tell you which specific person is at risk.
Worth it if…
- You're 200+ employees and engagement measurement is a board-level topic.
- You want validated survey science and industry benchmarks, not homegrown questionnaires.
- You can run an annual procurement and wait for insight on survey cadence.
Probably not worth it if…
- You're under ~200 people - reviewers consistently say the platform and pricing assume scale.
- You need a price today without a sales cycle.
- You need names, not trends: anonymized aggregate results deliberately can't name who's at risk.
How this page was put together (and who wrote it)
Published by TeamPredict - a retention tool, so we compete for the same budgets. To keep that honest: ratings are quoted with their sample sizes and check date (July 30, 2026), praise is listed before complaints, complaint themes come from review sites rather than our opinions, and the verdict names who Culture Amp genuinely serves best. TeamPredict is not a employee experience & engagement platform and doesn't pretend to be one. Spot something outdated? Email privacy@teampredict.ai and we'll fix it.
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